How do I search for something in Terminal?

There are a bunch of ways to list and find things in terminal.

It sounds to me as though you are a realitive beginner to the Unix command line (as I was several months ago) so perhaps instead of giving you the answer to your question precisly it would be more helpful for me to show you how to figure this sort of thing out for yourself

The first thing you are going to need to familiarize yourselfe with is the "man" command.

man will get you the "manual page" for most any command that you are looking to use. You can also look them up online, but man is a good first hit, and generally will have all the info you need.

The command that you are going to be needing for this opperation are

ls
grep


Basically, you are going to want to list recursivly with the ls command, and than pipe the out put of that into grep to search for the charactor pattern "zend" that you are looking for.

Check it out. See how faryou get, and feel free to ask more questions. Learning this stuff is an investment that really does pay off.

B

Try

find / -name "zend*" -print

Both Bill's and Jeff's answers apply, depending if "zend" is in the filename (Jeff's)or if "zend" is a word within the file (Bill's). Could be (and apparently was) interpreted two different ways from how you posed the question.

To search the current directory and below use ./

../ will start the search one level above your current working directory.

I would add one comment. The search string "zend*" will only find file names starting with "zend". If you want to find that word in the middle of the filename, you should use " zend" as the search string.

Boyd

In 10.4, mdfind is the command-line equivalent of spotlight. It is quite powerful, but it helps to use finer control (see mdfind man page).